Aaron Kunkel’s new documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is a film on the biggest non-fiction trends of early 2019.

The documentary, premiering this week at SXSW and on April 3 on YouTube Premium, it dives beneath the surface of a pop culture phenomenon and man who launched it.

Pearlman was the founder and manager of a boy-band empire that included Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. He wss the man behind it all, the total scheme that bilked hundreds of millions of dollars from investors which landed him in prison. Check out the clip below….